The Ballad of Peckham Rye

Spark, Muriel

ISBN 10: 1441713794 ISBN 13: 9781441713797

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks, 2010

Synopsis

A bewitching comic masterpiece, The Ballad of Peckham Rye relates the tale of one Dougal Douglas, who is taken on by a small textile firm to 'bring vision into the lives of the workers'. A devilishly charismatic force of nature who likes nothing better than to stir things up, he takes great delight in wreaking havoc with the locals. Nervous breakdowns, sexual misdemeanours, a heart attack and murder ensue ... This is Spark at her most ingenious.

This is one of the 22 novels written by Muriel Spark in her lifetime. All are being published by Polygon in hardback Centenary Editions between November 2017 and September 2018.

Introduction by Ronald Frame

About this title

Review:

"The best English novelist writing today".-- (London) Times Literary Supplement

About the Author:

Muriel Spark was born in Edinburgh in 1918. A poet, essayist, biographer and novelist, she won much international praise, including being twice shortlisted for the Booker Prize. The Times placed her eighth in its list of the Fifty Greatest British Writers Since 1945. She died in Tuscany in 2006.

Ronald Frame was born in Glasgow in 1953, and educated there and at Oxford. He is the author of many works of fiction, including the Booker-longlisted The Lantern Bearers, and is an award-winning television and radio scriptwriter.

About this edition

• Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1441713794
• ISBN 13: 9781441713797
• Binding: Audio CD